Latest Moan From You and Me 2024

I've never been involved in government pensions, (not state pension), or local authority pensions, so probably shouldn't comment, but I heard it spelt out today what this would actually mean and it sounded quite sensible.

Apparently ATM there are lots of small investments of different ones all scattered around and basically achieving less than they would do if they were consolidated and invested as a larger lump sum, I cant see why they are running so many different schemes.

 

I think you miss the point, working behind the scenes would probably achieve far less than him/her giving a big publicity push to these issues.

If they donated a million each, it wouldn't go far, but get the public involved and it makes much more.
That's why all these charities like to have some well known character/celebrity as a figure head.

 

I imagine most Royals feel pretty useless without having a "cause" to put their name to. I imagine they also believe in what they say and charities and organisations do like to have a royal figurehead.
Unfortunately, like many of of our politicians and big business leaders, they live a privileged and completely different lifestyle from the average citizen so have no realistic understanding of the many issues which affect most of us.
I don't follow "Royal" news but the only thing which sticks in my mind is that I understand Charles reduced the heating in Buckingham Palace when he took over

 

Celebrities feed off the oxygen of publicity that fronting charities gives them. You could say celebrities need charities and vice versa. Fair enough. All I'm saying is don't use the platform for gesture politics or pretending you are some sort of saviour and all will be well (homelessness will be eradicated; domestic abuse will be stopped) now that you have ridden in on your white charger. The reality is both homelessness and domestic abuse are likely to get a lot worse because of the way the wealthy siphon money out of society. If you are part of the problem, you cannot be the solution unless you change what you do and persuade other elites to do the same. And if that's what William had in mind, I'd be the first to applaud him ... but we all know this is not the intention behind his fronting this cause.

 

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